Mazmur 22:28

22:28 For the Lord is king ¹ 

and rules over the nations.

Mazmur 24:1

Psalm 24 ² 

A psalm of David.

24:1 The Lord owns the earth and all it contains,

the world and all who live in it.

Mazmur 37:2

37:2 For they will quickly dry up like grass,

and wither away like plants. ³ 

Mazmur 50:13

50:13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls?

Do I drink the blood of goats? ⁴ 

Mazmur 73:19

73:19 How desolate they become in a mere moment!

Terrifying judgments make their demise complete! ⁵ 

Mazmur 78:30

78:30 They were not yet filled up, ⁶ 

their food was still in their mouths,

Mazmur 93:2

93:2 Your throne has been secure from ancient times;

you have always been king. ⁷ 

Mazmur 103:6

103:6 The Lord does what is fair,

and executes justice for all the oppressed. ⁸ 

Mazmur 107:24

107:24 They witnessed the acts of the Lord,

his amazing feats on the deep water.

Mazmur 107:33

107:33 He turned ⁹  streams into a desert,

springs of water into arid land,

Mazmur 118:23

118:23 This is the Lord’s work.

We consider it amazing! ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 119:3

119:3 who, moreover, do no wrong,

but follow in his footsteps. ¹¹ 

Mazmur 119:12

119:12 You deserve praise, ¹²  O Lord!

Teach me your statutes!

Mazmur 121:2

121:2 My help comes from the Lord, ¹³ 

the Creator ¹⁴  of heaven and earth!

Mazmur 121:5

121:5 The Lord is your protector;

the Lord is the shade at your right hand.

Mazmur 131:3

131:3 O Israel, hope in the Lord

now and forevermore!

Mazmur 135:17

135:17 and ears, but cannot hear.

Indeed, they cannot breathe. ¹⁵ 

Mazmur 139:22

139:22 I absolutely hate them, ¹⁶ 

they have become my enemies!

Mazmur 145:16

145:16 You open your hand,

and fill every living thing with the food they desire. ¹⁷ 

[22:28]  ¹ tn Heb “for to the Lord [is] dominion.”

[24:1]  ² sn Psalm 24. The psalmist affirms the universal kingship of the sovereign creator, reminds his people that only the morally pure are qualified to worship him, and celebrates his splendor as a mighty warrior king.

[37:2]  ³ tn Heb “like green vegetation.”

[50:13]  ⁴ tn The rhetorical questions assume an emphatic negative response, “Of course not!”

[73:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “they come to an end, they are finished, from terrors.”

[78:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “they were not separated from their desire.”

[93:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “from antiquity [are] you.” As the context suggests, this refers specifically to God’s royal position, not his personal existence.

[103:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord does fairness, and [acts of] justice for all the oppressed.”

[107:33]  ⁹ tn The verbal form appears to be a preterite, which is most naturally taken as narrational. (The use of prefixed forms with vav [ו] consecutive in vv. 36-37 favor this.) The psalmist may return to the theme of God’s intervention for the exiles (see vv. 4-22, especially vv. 4-9). However, many regard vv. 33-41 as a hymnic description which generalizes about God’s activities among men. In this case it would be preferable to use the English present tense throughout (cf. NEB, NRSV).

[118:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “it is amazing in our eyes.” The use of the plural pronoun here and in vv. 24-27 suggests that the psalmist may be speaking for the entire nation. However, it is more likely that vv. 22-27 are the people’s response to the psalmist’s thanksgiving song (see especially v. 26). They rejoice with him because his deliverance on the battlefield (see vv. 10-12) had national repercussions.

[119:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “walk in his ways.”

[119:12]  ¹² tn Heb “[are] blessed.”

[121:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “my help [is] from with the Lord.”

[121:2]  ¹⁴ tn Or “Maker.”

[135:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “indeed, there is not breath in their mouth.” For the collocation אַף אֵין (’af ’en, “indeed, there is not”) see Isa 41:26. Another option is to take אַף as “nose” (see Ps 115:6), in which case one might translate, “a nose, [but] they have no breath in their mouths.”

[139:22]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “[with] completeness of hatred I hate them.”

[145:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “[with what they] desire.”